Synopses & Reviews
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships.
Culture Smart! offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience. Contents include:
* customs, values, and traditions
* historical, religious, and political background
* life at home
* leisure, social, and cultural life
* eating and drinking
* do's, don'ts, and taboos
* business practices
* communication, spoken and unspoken
"Culture Smart has come to the rescue of hapless travellers." Sunday Times Travel
"... the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries." Global Travel
"...full of fascinating-as well as common-sense-tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas." Observer
"...as useful as they are entertaining." Easyjet Magazine
"...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world." New York Times
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Visitors become culture smart with these bestselling travel and business handbooks. Regularly updated to ensure the accuracy of their information, this series is different . . . a valuable tool ("Weekly Telegraph").
Synopsis
Don't pack anxiety in your suitcase By reading Culture Smart Croatia before you go, will ease your travel, help you to make friends and avoid confusion. Culture Smart Croatia will help you to understand local manners, customs and laws. Culture Smart Croatia goes the extra mile to help you brush up on your cultural small talk and will make you confident in leaving your comfort zone far behind. Walk hand in hand with a Culture Smart guide and avoid misunderstandings that could cost you valuable time, money and enjoyment. With Culture Smart Croatia you will learn about daily living, historical perspectives, taboos, business etiquette, eating and drinking and much more, allowing you to experience the country like a native. Be responsible, be Culture Smart Culture Smart provides rare insights, and practical guidance, into cultures. The values, behaviour and customs of peoples have been formed over centuries which is why the unique information in Culture Smart guides do not date in the same way as ordinary travel guides. Culture Smart enables you to step into a world untouched by other guidebooks.
About the Author
IRINA BAN is a PR agent and consultant specializing in Croatia’s hidden destinations, gastronomy, and wines. She has organized trips for journalists and photographers from such diverse publications as GEO, National Geographic, National Geographic Adventurer, Elle, Le Figaro Magazine, The Financial Times, The Guardian, CondeNast Traveller, The Independent, World Atlas of Wines, and Scotland on Sunday. She has contributed to Time Out Visitor’s Guide to Croatia, Alistair Sawday’s Special Places to Stay in Croatia, and the French travel guides Petit Futé and Hébergement Insolite. Beside travel and tourism, she is interested in cross-cultural projects. In 2004, together with the Croatian Embassy in Brussels, she helped to organize the photographic exhibition “Croatian Lighthouses” in the Berlaymont building, the first such event to be held by the European Executive. She lives and works in Zagreb.